Description of problem: On booting Mga7, cups tries to start from systemd, but fails. Starting from an xterm, a race condition is showing. Restarting cups works O.K. My printer is a Brother MFC-J825DW, still supported by Brother, but not advertised for sale. I was told it was a hardware problem, but it is new behavior. Only one other user (faeychild) has reported a similar problem. I asked him to try restarting cups as I did. So far, he hasn't reported back. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): There are so many cups RPMs, all with different version numbers. This may be an upstream bug. How reproducible: On every bootup/reboot. Steps to Reproduce: 1. Configure printer with MCC. 2. Reboot: cups is not running. 3. Run "systemctl restart cups.service": cups is running.
Doug I wonder whether this is the same as bug 24189 (very long), of which c22: > it is clearly a race during startup rings a bell here. Could you please look at that bug, and judge whether it fits your case - or otherwise. TIA
CC: (none) => lewyssmith
Yes, Lewis, it looks identical. It was in 7 when 7 was Cauldron. I have tried the present Cauldron, and at the time, it seemed to be O.K. Must test again. Things I have tried to overcome the "race" situation; Delaying starting Cups with a line in cups.service: worked for a while. Adding an automatic reboot of Cups with a command in /etc/profile: seemed ineffectual.
faeychild's problem turned out to be totally unrelated.
Thank you Doug for confirming that the two bugs are the same problem. Hence... *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 24189 ***
Resolution: (none) => DUPLICATEStatus: NEW => RESOLVED